Poe is considered the inventor of the modern detective story, emulated masterfully by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Edgar Award is given to mystery writers each year.
He married his cousin Virginia Clemm when he was 26 and she was 13.
The Baltimore Ravens football team was named for his poem "The Raven."
Although "The Raven" was a huge hit, Poe only earned $14 for it.
His death remains a mystery. He was found in a Baltimore gutter, dressed in someone else's clothes, in a delirious state. Theories posited to explain his death include:
Rabies
Rare brain disease
Syphilis
Alcohol poisoning
Diabetes
A scheme involving being kidnapped, drugged, and used as a repeat voter in ballot-stuffing fraud
Each year since 1949, the 100th anniversary of the year of Poe's death, on Poe's birthday, a mysterious visitor known as the Poe Toaster leaves a half-empty bottle of Martel cognac and three roses on this grave. The roses are assumed to represent Poe, his wife Virginia, and her mother, Maria Clemm
Vocabulary
Foresight: Thoughtful regard for the future
Dissimulation: false appearances
Vexed: Troubled, distressed, caused agitation
Sagacity: Sound judgment; wisdom
Hearkening: Giving careful attention
Awe: A mixed feeling of reverence, fear, and wonder
Over-acuteness: over-keenness
Concealment: A means of hiding
Waned: grown gradually less
Scantlings: Small quantities or amounts
Suavity: Gracefulness, politeness
Bade: Urged, compelled
Audacity: Bold courage, daring
Reposed: laid at rest
Derision: Contempt, ridicule
Consider the following:
How does Poe create suspense?
Can you find examples of irony?
Can you map out the plot: rising action, climax, denouement?
Discuss the point of view of this story. What do we know about our narrator?
Fun Poe facts:
Poe is considered the inventor of the modern detective story, emulated masterfully by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Edgar Award is given to mystery writers each year.
He married his cousin Virginia Clemm when he was 26 and she was 13.
The Baltimore Ravens football team was named for his poem "The Raven."
Although "The Raven" was a huge hit, Poe only earned $14 for it.
His death remains a mystery. He was found in a Baltimore gutter, dressed in someone else's clothes, in a delirious state. Theories posited to explain his death include:
Rabies
Rare brain disease
Syphilis
Alcohol poisoning
Diabetes
A scheme involving being kidnapped, drugged, and used as a repeat voter in ballot-stuffing fraud
Each year since 1949, the 100th anniversary of the year of Poe's death, on Poe's birthday, a mysterious visitor known as the Poe Toaster leaves a half-empty bottle of Martel cognac and three roses on this grave. The roses are assumed to represent Poe, his wife Virginia, and her mother, Maria Clemm
Vocabulary
Foresight: Thoughtful regard for the future
Dissimulation: false appearances
Vexed: Troubled, distressed, caused agitation
Sagacity: Sound judgment; wisdom
Hearkening: Giving careful attention
Awe: A mixed feeling of reverence, fear, and wonder
Over-acuteness: over-keenness
Concealment: A means of hiding
Waned: grown gradually less
Scantlings: Small quantities or amounts
Suavity: Gracefulness, politeness
Bade: Urged, compelled
Audacity: Bold courage, daring
Reposed: laid at rest
Derision: Contempt, ridicule
Consider the following: